Covert Communication with Incumbent Channel Activities

Haichuan Ding; Jianping An

doi:10.1109/LWC.2023.3294343

Covert Communication with Incumbent Channel Activities

Haichuan Ding, Jianping An

School of Cyberspace Science and Technology

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In this paper, we investigate the throughput performance of covert communication over a channel with incumbent channel activities. Unlike existing work, we explicitly consider the interplay between channel access at the MAC layer and signal detection at the physical layer. Given the incumbent channel activities, the covertness constraint is mapped to the probability of detection at the physical layer, and the covert throughput is obtained accordingly. Our results demonstrate a significant increase in covert throughput can be achieved by exploiting the incumbent channel activities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1
Number of pages	1
Journal	IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2023.3294343
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2023

Keywords

Covert communication
Data communication
Internet of Things
Physical layer
Receivers
Signal detection
Throughput
Upper bound
incumbent channel activities
low probability of detection

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